The owner of a backyard farm from the village of Carpineni, Hincesti district, notified the territorial subdivision for food safety of competent authority about suspicion of ASF. Pigs had typical signs of African swine fever (anorexia, increased temperature and apathy). Samples were taken on the 30 November 2017 from a dead pig with signs of disease and blood samples from the live pigs. Results were received from the Republican Center for Veterinary Diagnosis on 4 December 2017; the samples were found positive using real-time PCR. All the dead and live pigs were destroyed.

Summary of outbreaks

Total outbreaks: 1

Total animals affected

Species

Susceptible

Cases

Deaths

Killed and disposed of

Slaughtered

Swine

5

1

1

4

0

Outbreak statistics

Species

Apparent morbidity rate

Apparent mortality rate

Apparent case fatality rate

Proportion susceptible animals lost*

Swine

20.00%

20.00%

100.00%

100.00%

*Removed from the susceptible population through death, destruction and/or slaughter